The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.
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2. The gaming device of claim 1, wherein the near-miss win corresponds to the first plurality of symbols matching a first winning plurality of symbols, and wherein the first number of symbol areas is less than a total number of symbol areas arranged along the line in the array of symbol areas.
5. The gaming device of claim 4, wherein the game continuation rules are retrieved from the game continuation register in response to determining that the player is enrolled in the game continuation register.
8. The gaming device of claim 1, wherein the game played is a reel-spin game comprising reels, and wherein the line in the array of symbol areas corresponds to a pay line of the reel-spin game that intersects the reels.
9. The gaming device of claim 8, wherein, in the first game outcome, the first plurality of symbols and the first number of symbol areas match a near-miss winning outcome, wherein the near-miss winning outcome comprises one unmatching symbol in the array of symbol areas and a remainder of matching symbols in the array of symbol areas.
10. The gaming device of claim 9, wherein activating the game enhancement feature locks reels of the reel-spin game comprising the matching symbols in the array of symbol areas during the subsequent play of the game and allows a reel of the reel-spin game comprising the unmatching symbol to change during the subsequent play of the game.
11. The gaming device of claim 9, wherein activating the game enhancement feature comprises adding a modified symbol option to a reel of the reel-spin game comprising the unmatching symbol of the array of symbol areas.
12. The gaming device of claim 11, wherein the modified symbol option is at least one of wild symbol and a bonus symbol.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the near-miss win corresponds to the first plurality of symbols matching a first winning plurality of symbols, and wherein the first number of symbol areas is less than a total number of symbol areas arranged along the line in the array of symbol areas.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the game continuation rules are retrieved from the game continuation register in response to determining that the player is enrolled in the game continuation register.
19. The method of claim 13, wherein the game played is a reel-spin game comprising reels, wherein the line in the array of symbol areas corresponds to a pay line of the reel-spin game that intersects the reels, wherein, in the first game outcome, the first plurality of symbols and the first number of symbol areas match a near-miss winning outcome, wherein the near-miss winning outcome comprises one unmatching symbol in the array of symbol areas and a remainder of matching symbols in the array of symbol areas, and wherein activating the game enhancement feature locks reels of the reel-spin game comprising the matching symbols in the array of symbol areas during the subsequent play of the game and allows a reel of the reel-spin game comprising the unmatching symbol to change during the subsequent play of the game.
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